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Cédric Villani

Cédric Villani publishes mostly in Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Physics and Geometry and Topology, on topics such as Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows, Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations.

World rank
#32,280
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#1,797
of 96,116
Works
50
Citations
475
Citations per work
9.5

What does Cédric Villani research?

Applied Mathematics: 36.4%Mathematical Physics: 6.5%Geometry and Topology: 5.2%Sociology and Political Science: 5.2%other fields: 46.7%36%top field
Applied Mathematics36.4%Mathematical Physics6.5%Geometry and Topology5.2%Sociology and Political Science5.2%other fields46.7%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Applied Mathematics36% of their works
  2. 2Mathematical Physics6% of their works
  3. 3Geometry and Topology5% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science5% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics5% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Cédric Villani's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Optimal Transport, Ricci Curvature, Boltzmann Equation, Fractional Laplacian, Kinetic Theory, Point Processes, Sobolev Spaces and Spatstat.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Optimal Transport111 topic
  2. Ricci Curvature111 topic
  3. Boltzmann Equation51 topic
  4. Fractional Laplacian51 topic
  5. Kinetic Theory51 topic
  6. Point Processes51 topic
  7. Sobolev Spaces51 topic
  8. Spatstat51 topic
  9. Digital Communication31 topic
  10. Fluctuation Theorems31 topic
  11. Information Studies31 topic
  12. Stochastic Thermodynamics31 topic
  13. Global Well-Posedness21 topic
  14. Kähler Metrics21 topic
  15. Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation21 topic
  16. Stability21 topic

Where does Cédric Villani work?

Cédric Villani's main affiliation in the publication record is École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France.

How many publications and citations does Cédric Villani have?

Science Explorer counts 50 works and 475 citations for Cédric Villani, ranking #32,280 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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